Studying Management CriticallyMats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott SAGE, 2003 M08 28 - 230 páginas `An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature′ - Adult Education Quarterly Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms. The book offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. It also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; the role of architecture as a repressive and emancipatory force in organizations; gender and organizations and critical methodology for organizational research. Key issues of power/knowledge relations across these areas are addressed and new agendas both for these fields and for management studies as a whole are introduced. Contributing authors include: Mats Alvesson, Gibson Burrell, David Cooper, Karen Dale, Stan Deetz, Linda Forbes, John Forester, John Jermier, David Levy, Joanne Martin, Glenn Morgan, Martin Parker, Mike Power, Richard Loughlin and Hugh Willmott |
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... contexts: management control systems in mining, implementation of new budgeting, information and costing systems in hospitals, the history of the accounting profession and their codes of ethics, the regulation of the accounting ...
... contexts of planning practice, as structures of selective attention, and so systematically distorted communication. (Forester, 1985: 203) In. ..—In this way, the insights of critical thinking may then be taken into account in ...
... contexts. These 'objects' are not given but, rather, are shaped by relations of power and domination that, in principle, can be transformed to develop very different 'objects'. Instead of confining change to reform within the status quo ...
... context of the increasing social, political and ecological implications of decisions made by managers within modern corporations, as Deetz has argued: I The modern corporation has emerged as the dominant means of institutionalizing ...
... context of dominant notions of management and leadership ideals that frequently bear subtle imprints of a particular cultural and/ or postcolonial tradition (see A. Prasad, 2003; P. Prasad, 1997). A careful scrutiny of managerial ...
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Critical Ethnography and The Extraordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work | 46 |
Unexplored Synergies | 66 |
Chapter 5 Critical Approaches to Strategic Management | 92 |
Prospects and Problems | 111 |
Chapter 7 Accounting and Critical Theory | 132 |
Critical Issues | 157 |
Chapter 9 Building Better Worlds? Architecture and Critical Management Studies | 177 |
Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics | 197 |
Author Index | 220 |
Subject Index | 225 |